MUSIC
Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest Irving (Kaleidoscope, for piano, opus 18)
SCENERY & COSTUMES
F.E.D. (Sophie Fedorovitch)
DANCERS
Monsieur Duchic (a costumier): Frederick Ashton; Orchidée (his partner): Marie Rambert; Model ‘Rose d’Ispahan’: Frances James; Model ‘Désir du Cygne’: Elizabeth Vincent; The Viscountess Viscosa: Esme Biddle; The Viscount Viscosa OBE: W Earle Grey
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 15 June 1926
New Stagings / Productions
Mayfair Company of English Dancers, 1926
NEW PRODUCTION
Mayfair Company of English Dancers; solo for M Duchic only, under the title Youth – ‘The Swaggerer’
DANCERS
Frederick Ashton
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Royal Academy of Music, London, 29 November 1926
Pupils of Marie Rambert, 1928
NEW PRODUCTION
Pupils of Marie Rambert; solo for Rose d’Ispahan only, under the title Mannequin Dance
DANCERS
Diana Gould
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Arts Theatre Club, London, 9 March 1928
At a performance by Diana Gould and Harold Turner at the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, 8 October 1928, the programme included a short suite called Mannequin and her Beau, in three parts – She, He, and Pas de deux – of which the first was Mannequin Dance. Later, they sometimes danced the Pas de deux as a pendant to her solo, but according to Marie Rambert she herself arranged this. Mannequin Dance was included in the divertissements at the first performance by the Marie Rambert Dancers at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 25 January 1930, and thereafter
Ballet Rambert, 1986
NEW PRODUCTION
Ballet Rambert; solo for Rose d’Ispahan only, under the title Mannequin Dance
REPRODUCED BY
Frederick Ashton and Diana Gould
DANCERS
Sara Matthews
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 11 June 1986
Copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan
This listing is part of a chronology that was originally published in Vaughan’s Frederick Ashton and His Ballets (Alfred E Knopf 1976; 2nd ed., London: Dance Books, 1999) and includes new productions added since then, and up until 2007